Archive - Mar 4, 2016
ISS Radio Report
Kenwood TH-D72, APRS and the ISS
I am able to successfully Tx to the ISS with my D72 using APRS. I can also hear the ISS repeat APRS packets.
Today there was a pass at 80 degrees over my house and I easily got into the ISS and heard packets very well. From ariss.net:
00:00:11:32 : K2GFM]TQ0R2V,RS0ISS*,qAR,VE2GQF-2:'fY:l n]/]=
But... my Kenwood doesn't seem to want to decode them.
Any ideas on what is going on?
Thanks...
ARISS Celebrates its 1000th Educational Amateur Radio Contact !
ARISS Celebrates its 1000th Educational Amateur Radio Contact
ARISS celebrated 15 years of a permanent ham radio presence in space last December.
In 2000, several pupils and a teacher got to chat on 2 meters with the first ISS Commander, William "Shep" Shepherd, KD5GSL. Since that first ARISS school contact, astronauts and cosmonauts aboard the station have talked with students in 44 states in the US and in 51 other countries.